Selected Weather and Climate Information on the WWWeb

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Table of Contents

California and Nevada

• National Weather Service Offices (Federal Government)
  • Eureka
  • Sacramento
  • Reno, NV
  • Monterey (San Francisco Bay Area)
  • Hanford (San Joaquin Valley)
  • Los Angeles/Oxnard
  • San Diego
  • California-Nevada River Forecast Center
• California Data Exchange Center
  (State of California)
• California Department of Water Resources
  (State of California)
• Center for Coastal Studies, Scripps Institute of Oceanography
  (Univ. of Cal., San Diego)
• California Irrigation Management Information System
  (California Department of Water Resources and University of California, Davis)
• Golden Gate Weather Services Weather Links
  (Includes original, though not peer-reviewed, research by Jan Null, consulting meteorologist, Golden Gate Weather Services)

Western U.S.

• National Weather Service Forecast Offices (map with links)
• Western Regional Climate Center
  (Federal and Nevada State Governments)
• National Weather Service Office, Seattle, WA
  (Federal Government)
• Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Monterey, CA
  (Federal Government)
• Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington
• Oregon Climate Service Oregon State University
• Department of Meteorology, University of Utah
• Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona
• Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
• Alaska Climate Research Center, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
• Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii
• iWind.com
  (Privately organized reports on wind surfing conditions)

National, International, and Other Meteorological Organizations

• UM Weather
  (Formerly WeatherNet; a comprehensive set of links to most known weather sites; the University of Michigan)
• National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• The National Weather Service (NWS)
  (Weather forecasts and related services for the public. Administered by NOAA.)
• Current International Weather Observations (NWS)
• National Weather Service Forecast Offices (map with links)
• National Weather Service Interactive Weather Information
• National Hurricane Center (NHC)
  (Forecasts and research on hurricanes. Administered by NOAA.)
• National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)
  (Research on severe thunderstorms and tornados. Administered by NOAA.)
• Climate Prediction Center (CPC)
  (Research and prediction of climate and climate change. Administered by NOAA.)
• National Climate Data Center (NCDC)
  (Maintains climate records. Administered by NOAA.)
• National Climate Data Center (NCDC): U.S. Climate at a Glance
  (Easy access to U.S. climate records. Administered by NOAA.)
• Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC)
  (Research on satellite technology and satellite image interpretation. University of Wisconsin.)
• Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)
  (Research on seasonal, interannual, and decadal climate fluctuations. Private institute.)
• American Meteorological Society
• World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
  (United Nations. Organizes international cooperation in meteorology.)

Climate

• National Climate Data Center (NCDC)
  (Maintains climate records. Administered by NOAA.)
• National Climate Data Center: U.S. Climate at a Glance
  (Administered by NOAA)
• Climate Prediction Center (CPC)
  (Research and prediction of climate and climate change. Administered by NOAA.)
• Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC)
  (Research on the nature and causes of climate variations. Administered by NOAA)
• Research Data
  (Data Support Section, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR))
• Regional Climate Centers
  (Joint federal and state governments)
  • Western Regional Climate Center
    (Federal and Nevada state governments)
  • Alaska Climate Research Center
    (University of Alaska, Fairbanks)
• Weatherbase
  (Monthly-average climate data. Commercial site.)
• WorldClimate
  (Monthly-average climate data. Privately maintained site.)
• Comparative Climate Data--U.S.
  (Monthly data for about 300 sites; Jan Null, Golden Gate Weather Services)
• California Climate Data Archive
  (Western Regional Climate Data Center)
• Northern California Climatological Data
  (National Weather Service, San Francisco Bay Area)
• Southern California Climatological Data
  (National Weather Service, Los Angeles/Oxnard)
• California Irrigation Management Information System
  (Data from 100+ stations in California, including evapotranspiration data. California Department of Water Resources and University of California, Davis)
• San Francisco Bay Area Climate and Weather
  (Jan Null, Golden Gate Weather Services)
• Climate of San Francisco
  (Jan Null, Golden Gate Weather Services)
• Climate of San Jose, CA
  (Jan Null, Golden Gate Weather Services)

El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and La Niña

• El Niño and California Precipitation
  (Discussion of the effect of past El Niños on precipitation in California, by John Monteverdi of SFSU's Dept. of Geosciences and Jan Null of the NWS Monterey Forecast Office.)
• La Niña and California Rainfall
  (Discussion of the effect of past La Niñas on precipitation in California, by Jan Null, formerly of the NWS Monterey Forecast Office, and John Monteverdi of SFSU's Dept. of Geosciences.)
• El Niña and La Niña: Are They Related to California Flood Damage?
  (A look at records of flood damage in California and the degree to which it is associated with past El Niños and La Niñas, by Jan Null, formerly of the NWS Monterey Forecast Office.)
• El Niño Theme Page: Accessing Distributed Information Related to El Niño
  (El Niño definition, historical record, current data, and forecasts, by NOAA's Pacific Marine Environment Lab in Seattle.)
• JPL's El Niño Watch
  (Data and update on current El Niño event, by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.)
• El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Information
  (El Niño information, from NOAA-CIRES's Climate Diagnostics Center.)
• El Niño Loss Reduction Center
  (El Niño mitigation and preparedness activities, from the Federal Emergency Management Administration [FEMA].)
• El Niño and the Western U.S., Alaska and Hawaii
  (Links to information about El Niño, from the NWS's Western Regional Climate Center in Reno, NV.)
• "El Niño/La Niña: Nature's Viscious Cycle"
  (National Geographic Magazine article, with links to other sources of information)

Tropical Meteorology and Hurricanes

• National Hurricane Center (NHC)
  (Forecasting and research on hurricanes. Administered by NOAA.)
• Hurricane Forecasts
  (offered by Colorado State University)
• The Current Hurricane Season
  (Tallahassee, Florida National Weather Service site focusing on the latest hurricanes and tropical storms near North America)
• Tropical Cyclone Page
  (Satellite images, radar images, storm tracks, etc., for current and historical tropical cyclones. Offered by the Naval Research Laboratory in Monterey, CA.)
• Frequently Asked Questions about Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Tropical Cyclones
  (Offered by Dr. Christopher Landsea of NOAA's Hurricane Research Division in Miami, FL.)
• Hurricane/Tropical Data, including historical Hurricane tracks, for the North Atlantic, Eastern Pacific, and Western Pacific Oceans
  (Created by Unisys, Inc. from data compiled by the National Hurricane Center, Miami, FL.)
• Mitch: The Deadliest Atlantic Hurricane Since 1780.
  (A case study of 1998's Hurricane Mitch. Created by NOAA's National Climate Data Center.)